Montana Statutes
§ 72-3-1013 — Limitation On Actions Against Distributees
Montana·Title 72 ESTATES, TRUSTS, AND FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIPS·Ch. 3 UPC -- PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION·Part 10 Closing Estates
72-3-1013 . Limitation on actions against distributees.
(1)Unless previously adjudicated in a formal testacy proceeding or in a proceeding settling the accounts of a personal representative or otherwise barred, the claim of any claimant to recover from a distributee who is liable to pay the claim and the right of any heir or devisee or of a successor personal representative acting in their behalf to recover property improperly distributed or the value thereof from any distributee is forever barred at the later of 3 years after the decedent's death or 1 year after the time of distribution, but all claims of creditors of the decedent are barred 1 year after the decedent's death.
(2)This section does not bar an action to recover property or value received as the result of fraud.
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Legislative History
En. 91A-3-1007 by Sec. 1, Ch. 365, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 91A-3-1007; amd. Sec. 79, Ch. 313, L. 2019.
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